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PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIG DE MARE, OF BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.

ILLUMINATING AND ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 760,058, dated May 17,1904.

Application filed January 4:, 1901. Serial No. 42,055. (No model.)

To (I/ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERIG DE MARE, a subject ofthe King of Belgium,and a resident of Brussels, Belgium, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Illuminating and Advertising Devices, ofwhich thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to illuminating and advertising devices; and theobject thereof is to produce a simple device which can be readilyactuated by any motive power.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a sheet ofpaper or other suitable material cut to form a plurality of wings. Fig.2 is a plan view of a strengthening ring or disk. Fig. 3 is a front Viewof a group of my illuminating devices driven by a motor. Fig. 4 is avertical sectional view of a part of the flexible, shaft and one of thepinions employed with the motor-driven device. Fig. 5 is a partial frontelevation of the same. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view of a part ofthe outer end of the flexible shaft and the pinion mounted thereon. Fig.7 is an enlarged detail plan view of the bottom ring shown in Fig. 2,illustrating how the claws are bent. Fig. 8 is a sectional view taken online A B of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is an enlarged detail plan view of the topring or plate. Fig. 10 is a sectional view taken on line C I) of Fig. 9.Fig. 11 is a plan view in perspective of the blank shown in Fig. 1 withthe wings bent to an operative position.

The design shown in Fig. 1 is cut out of a sheet of paper. In the saiddesign there is a central perforation, and concentrically to thisperforation there are a plurality of smaller perforations, all in thesame circle and at equal distances apart, near the periphery of thedesign. The edge of the design may instead of being rectilineal, asshown in the drawings, be made with curved indents cut more or lessdeeply into the sheet. The

sheets from which the wings or sails are thus cut may be of any suitablematerialfor example, celluloid or white paper printed in variouscolors-whereby various ornamental effects are produced. The paper may bemade transparent and waterproof either by applying paraffin thereto orby using colored varnishes forthe printing of the pattern. The wings amay be made separately from one another, each constituting an equal partof the whole.

Whatever the material employed, when it is cut it must be strengthenedby a thin metal ring, out as shown in Fig. 2. This ring serves to holdthe several wings together when they are cut separately.

The claws a are bent outwardly, then upwardly to engage the holes 7) cutin the sheet, and, finally, bent toward the center. The claws c are alsobent normally and then folded back on the sheet toward the outside afterpassing through the central perforation in the said sheet.

The claws (Z, which are three in number,

are intended to maintain the proper distance between the sheet and thelamp-support, while the claws c c e are bent rearwardly and adapted tospace the disk from the support of the apparatus when the sails are madeto turn.

The apparatus being intended for illuminating purposes, it is necessaryto provide suitable means for fixing it in position. Such supportingdevices may be constructed to hold several of the constructions, andthus produce a highly ornamental effect. They are composed of flexibletubes 2", which are bent at right angles in order that the illuminatingdevices will turn on a horizontal shaft, Figs.

3 and 5.

Although it is by the agency of the wind that the devices are mostfrequently made to rotate, any motive power may be employed. A smallelectric motor, for instance, may be adapted for this purpose, andeither a separate current or the current from the ordinary electriclamps may be used to drive it. Thus when there is no wind, as ininclosed places, my invention may be worked by electricity. In thislatter connection I have introduced a small electric motor andmechanical device especially adapted to produce a flashing effect. Inthe drawings I have shown a three-branched design which is operated by amotor arranged at the base 9 of the design. Its shaft is geared withthree pinionsjj ,7' The sockets '10, 11, and 12 receive the ends of theflexible shafts 13 M 15. Each of the latter is sheathed tising device,the combination of a centrallyperforated sheet doubled so as to formwings or sails, a metallic ring having acentral opening provided at itsedge with a series of claws, and a second series of claws intermediatethe edge of said opening and the outer edge of said ring, saidlast-named series of claws being struck out from the ring and passingthrough the sheet to hold the wings in form, said firstnamed series ofclaws passing through the central aperture of said sheet and being bentoutwardly therefrom, and a support around which the sails are groupedand revolve.

2. In a device of the type set forth, the combination with a centrally-perforated sheet folded to form wings, said sheet being formed with aseries of openings concentric with the central opening, of a metallicdisk having a central opening, a series of claws struck out from saiddisk, said claws passing through the said series of openings in saidsheet and being bent upon themselves, a second series of claws formedintegral with said disk and passing through the central opening of saidsheet and being bent upon themselves, and means for rotatabl y mountingthe device, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

, FREDERIC'DE MARE. Witnesses:

B. SGHEL, GREGORY PHELAN.

